Community colleges are an essential component of America’s higher education system. This report focuses on the high costs of the low retention and completion rates that are far too typical of community colleges.
AIR and a panel of experts convened on Thursday, April 20 for a discussion on building resilience and sustainable livelihoods in displaced communities.
Through Pakistan Data and Research for Education (DARE), AIR has two contracts from the World Bank – funded by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office – to provide technical assistance on large-scale student assessments at the national and provincial levels in Pakistan.
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
The Colombia Youth Resilience Activity (YRA) aims to address these challenges in high-risk communities across the country by designing a holistic solution that fosters youth assets and agency, while also strengthening protective environments, healthy relationships, and economic opportunities.
This third brief in a series explores high school students’ and parents’ perceptions of income share agreements (ISAs) as well as their decisions about how to pay for college.
Although English language learners (ELLs) have an increasing presence in postsecondary education, their unique needs are often unmet by institutions of higher education. Technology-mediated English language instruction may be a solution to the pressing challenges that postsecondary institutions face in providing personalized instruction to ELLs, because it allows instruction to ...
This final brief in a series about ISAs explores the current state of the income share agreement market and highlights opportunities and threats to expansion.
Despite being the nation's largest racial/ethnic minority, Hispanics are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)—both in college and the workplace. This REL Southwest report reviews the research to identify K–12 factors that predict students' postsecondary STEM success, particularly for Hispanic students. ...